Mixed training on conflicts of interest for public institutions

Experience tells us that face-to-face training allows us to achieve objectives that exclusively virtual (and individual) training does not make possible. We refer, for example, to facilitating internal institutional debate spaces on the most common risks, exchanging experiences with other areas or departments, sharing strategies to manage them appropriately, etc.

Furthermore, a training of this type, if well planned and framed within an internal strategy to strengthen institutional integrity, can act as a trigger and become the impetus to initiate broader internal work, which goes beyond the training itself (developing guides or protocols of good practices, designating internal references in this matter, promoting spaces for periodic reflection and exchange to identify and assess risks, generating internal awareness-raising resources, formally incorporating the review of this type of risk into decision-making, ...).

With all this, and with the desire to accompany public institutions that want to take a step further, the Office has designed, for the first level of competence of this training itinerary, a mixed solution that combines two methodologies. First, participants are offered the individual and asynchronous study of the self-training capsule Introduction to conflicts of interest as risks, through the Anti-Fraud Virtual Classroom and, second, participation in a synchronous face-to-face session, lasting 2 hours, to debate, reflect and facilitate the transfer to the workplace of the content previously studied. The main objectives of this group session are:

• Recognizing conflict of interest as a risk to institutional integrity, based on plausible cases
• Identify and classify prevention tools to manage them appropriately
• Reflect on the most common risks in the workplace

This training solution, specifically the face-to-face session, is aimed exclusively at public institutions. To access it, you must:

1. Integrate this training into a broader institutional integrity promotion strategy (institutional integrity plan; anti-fraud measures plan; training promoted by ethics committees or commissions; etc.)

2. Select a group of participants with a role that is considered especially relevant in terms of identifying or managing conflicts of interest, so that they can then act as internal references in this matter (staff with command, local elected officials, managers or technicians of areas or services with a special incidence of this type of risk – recruitment, personnel selection, subsidies, etc.)

3. Guarantee a group of at least 30 people and a maximum of 40

4. Commitment to the prior study of the self-training capsule, prior to the face-to-face session. The design of the face-to-face session has been planned to provide a space for reflection on the contents of the self-training course, which is why the approval of the course is configured as an essential starting point, without which it will not be possible to attend the face-to-face training.

If you need to expand on this information, have any questions or, directly, are interested and want to make a request for your institution, you can contact the Training Area by telephone +34 935 545 555